{"id":757,"date":"2009-06-01T23:29:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T18:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/archbishop-of-canterbury-helps-people-understand-theology\/"},"modified":"2009-06-01T23:42:29","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T18:42:29","slug":"archbishop-of-canterbury-helps-people-understand-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/archbishop-of-canterbury-helps-people-understand-theology\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop of Canterbury: Pullman helps people understand theology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citing Philip Pullman as one of his favourite modern writers, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams said he liked his work because it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/5400460\/Philip-Pullman-helps-understanding-of-theology-says-Archbishop-of-Canterbury.html\">took the church &#8220;seriously&#8221;<\/a> at a time when theology was &#8220;drifting out&#8221; of mainstream thought. &#8220;[Pullman] takes the Christian myth, or a version of it, seriously enough to want to disagree passionately with it. It&#8217;s not just dull or remote, it&#8217;s dangerous. You&#8217;ve got to tussle with it. It&#8217;s still alive.&#8221; Dr Williams made the comments after telling the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hayfestival.com\">Hay Festival<\/a> audience that he thought theology had become less relevant to the &#8220;intellectual mainstream&#8221; since the 19th century. Thanks to Skye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing Philip Pullman as one of his favourite modern writers, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams said he liked his work because it took the church &#8220;seriously&#8221; at a time when theology was &#8220;drifting out&#8221; of mainstream thought. &#8220;[Pullman] takes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/archbishop-of-canterbury-helps-people-understand-theology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}